Lending a helping hand

Scott Nunn, scott.nunn@hearstnp.com

Published
2:01 pm EDT, Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Image
1of/3

Caption

Close

Image 1 of 3

Lending a helping hand

1 / 3

Back to Gallery

UPPER THUMB — The Upper Thumb may not be experiencing widespread flooding, but to the west Midland County has been declared a state of emergency and Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson, along with other first responders have headed out to lend a hand.

In addition to personnel from Huron and Tuscola County sheriff's offices, Hanson has dispatched the department's 5-ton decommissioned military truck and the county airboat to rescue stranded Midland County residents.

"No more than we debriefed and we assisted the Midland Fire Department with retrieving a male victim whose house was surrounded with water ranging between 4-5 feet deep," Hanson said. "We drove our truck in the water back in the neighborhood as far as we could go and launched off of it."